The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-21
FLORIDA.

Upward of 800 visitors registered last
Sunday at Fort Marion, St Augustine.
! Gen. j. s. Williams, 'Cerro Gordo," of
Kentucky, arrived in Orlando Saturday.
William REYNOLDS Ccolored) accidentally
killed T. G. Gooding (colored at Sylvan
Lake Friday.
The new building for Grace Methodist
| Episcopal church at st. Augustine is rapidly
approaching completion.
'Coons are quite numerous at Hawkins
vile now. The Dade boys caught nine
large ones in the past two nights.
The DeFuniak Signal charges that infe-
rior material is being used in the work done
on the county buildings now in process OF
erection there
l.. A. Dade, of Hawkinsville has engaged
his crop of oranges to a firm in North Caro-
lima for 50 % a box, delivered on the dock
at Hawkinsville.
Among the multitude of accessories per-
tanning to the Ponce de Leon Hotel, at st.
Augustine, viii be, it is said, printing of
flee, where the printing for the house-cir-
culars, menus, etc.-will be executed.
Prominent gentlemen of Orange county
propose at an early date to form county
organization on large scale for the purpose
of cultivating and manufacturing tobacco.
A meeting will be called at an early date in
y
jectors to make it a county affair and to
clearly demonstrate the practicability of
| the successful growing of the finest grades
of tobacco in South Florida.
John Cody, an Irishman, in charge of the
| freight department of the st. John railroad
at Tocoi, arrived at st. Augustine Monday
with, the back of his head mashed badly and
other injuries on his person. He swore out
| a warrant and had William Young, an En-
| glishman, Postmaster of Tocoi, arrested on
the charge of assault and battery. The case
was tried before Judge Cooper. sNo wit
nesses saw the commencement of the ARRAY,
hence the jury brought in verdict of not
| guilty, in accordance with the law giving a
prisoner the benefit of the doubt. Young
admits striking and injuring the complain
ant with brick, but says the complainant
began the ARRAY by striking and cutting
him.
A new church has been recently erected
at Huntington. 1t is quite an architectural
gem, and when completed, as it will be very
| shortly, with its fine tower and rose win
| dows, it will be an ornament to the place.
| A bell has just been presented to the church
as memorial offering from Mr.. Everson
Brooks, of New York city, and his sister.
Mrs. Dr. Hurlbrett, of Stamford county
and though it may not be mounted in its
proper place in the tower yet it will be
raised on temporary staging, and for the
| first time on Christmas morning the merry
| Christmas bell will resound through the
woods The deed of the land snd building
has been sent to the right reverend the
Bishop of Florida, as trustee for the diocese.
Columbia County Citizen: Our last
| issue contained a lengthy account of the re-
covery from the bed of the Ichetucknee
river of the bones of a mastodon and the
transferring of them, by DIR. j. Kost, State
Geologist, etc, to the Agricultural College
museum at this place. The doctor is still at
work, and his discoveries increase in in
! terest. The bones of another mastodon of
full size have been taken up half a mile
higher up the river. These prove TO be those
| of another individual, because they are dupli-
cates-incuding an additional maxillary and
extra femur, as also numerous smaller
bones What is particularly interesting is
| that the bones of three other species of large
animals of earlier geological ages-the Meg
atherium, Mylodon and Pal9otherium-
were found in the same locality where the
last found mastodon bones were taken up.
| DIR. Kosts labors will add greatly to the
palseontology of Florida, and should be
properly encouraged and aided.
Many st. Augustine people are curious to
| know why large hotel is being built, al
| most as large as the Ponce de Leon, in such
close proximity to it by the same man. The
Alcazar, when finished and occupied, will
be more Of cosmopolitan bazar than any
thing else. Its large court will have open
ing upon it many stores selling souvenirs
and fancy goods There viii be cafes
where one can go and procure meal cost
ing as small figure as 25c., or something
bon ton to cost as high as 81. Suites of
rooms will be furnished for any sized family.
One of the magnificent features of the Alca-
Ear will be the bathing department. Here
one can obtain a bath in the recherche
| Turkish style-can dive in the big sulphur
pool, or sport in the great sea water bath.
The Alcazar is intended to be a nucleus
where one can go and find whatsoever he
may desire, from the plainest necessaries OF
life to the costliest luxuries 1t will be com
pleted in few months. Like the Ponce de
Leon, it will be surmounted by two towers
Of handsome proportions.